Things to Do, Oct. 11: Get Up Kids at Musica, community conversation at Main...
Take in Get Up Kids reunion at MusicaInfluential 1990s former emo rockers the Get Up Kids (Something To Write Home About) are reunited, playing alt-rock and back on the road. They’ll perform at Musica...
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REPORTING SCORESSchools are encouraged to report scores by email at bjsports@thebeaconjournal.com, by fax at 330-996-3629 or by phone at 330-996-3800. Let your athletic director and coach know if you...
View ArticleGarfield and Kenmore high schools will become one
The final newly constructed high school in the Akron Public Schools’ districtwide construction project will be a merger of Garfield and Kenmore high schools.The decision was made Monday by a unanimous...
View ArticleSheriff Steve Barry’s photo with Donald Trump draws criticism, concerns of...
Summit County Sheriff Steve Barry is under fire after he published a monthly newsletter depicting the county’s SWAT team posing with presidential candidate Donald Trump while carrying military-like...
View ArticleStudents show cooperation, tolerance in nasty political times
It took more planning than usual for Trina Poole to prepare for classes Monday.By 7:30 a.m., her first class of students at Stow-Munroe Falls High School sorted themselves into their desks, young women...
View ArticleHawks 99, Cavaliers 93: Cavs rest starters in preseason loss in Atlanta
ATLANTA: Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue still has some decisions to make at the bottom of the Cavs’ roster. Nights like Monday will go a long way in determining who stays and who goes. To that extent, Kay...
View ArticleIndians notebook: Ace Corey Kluber had trouble pushing off, made up for it;...
BOSTON: Despite still dealing with a mild quadriceps strain, Indians ace Corey Kluber looked like his normal self in a 6-0 win over the Boston Red Sox in Game 2 of the American League Division Series....
View ArticleIndians 4, Red Sox 3: Indians complete sweep of Red Sox, will face Toronto...
BOSTON: So much for being counted out. So much for the Indians losing too many key players to contend in the postseason. So much for it being a short October. The Indians took down the Boston Red Sox...
View ArticleFive videos from inside Indians' clubhouse during ALDS sweep celebration
Here are five videos from the visiting clubhouse at Fenway Park, where the Indians celebrated their three-game sweep of the Boston Red Sox in the American League Division Series.
View ArticleIndians 4, Red Sox 3: Ryan Lewis’ 35 Walk-Off Thoughts on a sweep, Coco...
Here are 35 Walk-Off Thoughts after the Indians beat the Boston Red Sox 4-3 at Fenway Park to complete a three-game sweep and advance to the American League Championship Series. And here are five...
View ArticleAmbulance carrying shooting victim involved in crash
CINCINNATI: Authorities say an ambulance transporting a victim from a double shooting to a hospital was hit by a car and crashed into a building.Police say they were called to the shooting around 10...
View ArticleIrving Olson, 102, founder of electronics chain, Akron arts supporter...
Though Irving J. Olson and his late wife, Ruth, moved away from Akron 18 years ago, their hearts never left their hometown. Mr. Olson passed away on Oct. 1 in his sleep at his home in Oro Valley, Ariz....
View ArticleAnalysis: Clinton, Trump tax plans are “mirror images”
SANTA FE, N.M.: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump’s tax plans are “mirror images” of one another, with the Democrat proposing steep tax hikes on the wealthy while the Republican candidate proposes even...
View ArticleThings You Need to Know — compiled Oct. 11
Trump confronts GOP opponentsThe billionaire steps up his attacks on his own party leaders, promising to teach Republicans who oppose him a lesson.Tax plans are ‘mirror images’An Urban-Brookings Tax...
View ArticleLocal Republicans reluctant to follow Kasich's lead in disavowing Trump
By Doug LivingstonBeacon Journal staff writerIn these final four weeks of the 2016 election, Ohio Republicans will be calculating the distance they can put between themselves and Donald Trump. On...
View ArticleRegional news briefs — Oct. 12, 2016
AKRONRoad closure to startAKRON: A portion of Sand Run Parkway will be closed starting Thursday as a contractor for the park district re-paves the road surface between North Portage Path and the...
View ArticleUA’s interim president Matthew Wilson is very visible on and off campus
A little creativity and back to basics — that’s the strategy the University of Akron’s interim President Matthew Wilson is using to help restore confidence in the administration.“It’s all about the...
View ArticleThings to Do, Oct. 12: Fuze kicks off with So Percussion and UA ensemble;...
Find a beat at Tuesday Musical’s Fuze seriesTuesday Musical’s Fuze series, which features innovative and edgy takes on classical music, opens at 7 p.m. with So Percussion and the University of Akron...
View ArticleUnshackled, Trump unleashes aggressive attacks on own party
WASHINGTON: The “shackles” gone, Donald Trump stepped up his fierce attacks on his own party leaders Tuesday, promising to teach Republicans who oppose him a lesson and fight for the presidency “the...
View ArticleObama pushes U.S. goal to send humans to Mars by 2030s
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama sought Tuesday to reinvigorate his 6-year-old call for the U.S. to send humans to Mars by the 2030s, a mission NASA has been slowly and quietly chipping away at.The...
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